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Yeah, pretty bizarre how our

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:32:09 +0000

Yeah, pretty bizarre how our base standards have shifted. Where's the wonder?

We subscribed to Cobblestone shortly after - never liked it much, but mainly because it felt academic instead of fun, but almost all US kids magazines seem that way to me...

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oldenGoldenDecoy — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:53:06 +0000

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Howdy ... Just updating a contact . . .

The above post was originally published in my TPM CafeBlog back in 2006.

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Hello Percales . . . The

oldenGoldenDecoy — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:52:13 +0000

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Hello Percales . . .

The above post was originally published in my TPM CafeBlog back in 2006. Coming back and reading this now has again really chilled me as to what depths of propaganda the militarists of our nation use to influence the most impressionable young minds.

To think that children who were then 10 years old that were fed this crap in there classrooms are now of age to join the Army and as you said, "...see the world, meet exotic people... and kill them"

What a sad state of affairs...

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Awesome. We know soldiers are

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:53:09 +0000

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Awesome.

We know soldiers are an überclass because they protect our freedoms.

Criticizing their missions is putting them in harms way.

Do you have your SEAL 5 action figure yet?

"Join the Army - see the world, meet exotic people... and kill them"

Maybe they could put their career energy next issue into being a peace activist, a lawyer for the downtrodden, an engineer creating pluggable car infrastructure, a climate scientist looking at ways to preserve the planet & resources, a teacher teaching kids poetry....

Special bonus question for advanced students: if you ever find yourself occupying a strange land for 12 years, you should a) learn goat ball, b) import foreign necessities like peanut butter as the local blokes are incompetent, c) pack bags & run screaming for the exits, d) set up a 10pm curfew to make sure local customs don't interfere with operations & patrol.

I myself am considering the

Aaron Carine — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:39:17 +0000

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I myself am considering the option of abolishing the U.S. military. That may not be relevant to this subject, but I wanted to say it.